When teaching a student with a disability, the teacher and student should communicate about the disability and exactly what the student will need to complete their work. Often times the student requires a very small classroom adaptation, such as copies of the assignments in large print or Braille. Sometimes the accommodation is larger and will take some effort on behalf of the teacher and administration to acquire and use the accommodation. From large to small, the pages in this section discuss general problems students have and which accommodations can be made.

Working Together: Science Teachers and Students with Disabilities
This video is from the University of Washington’s DO-IT program, which stands for Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology. Students with various disabilities discuss accommodations they have used in a science lab, but all are applicable to classrooms in general.

Specific strategies and product ideas for making general classroom tasks accessible:

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0622885.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.